Rugby World Cup 2023 Supports Keep Rugby Clean Weekend

For the third round of Rugby World Cup 2023, all players have been encouraged to take a stand against doping by wearing branded Keep Rugby Clean t-shirts during their pre-match warm-ups on the weekend of 23-24 September said the tournament organisers.

Feature Photo Credit – World Rugby – NICE, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 20: The players of Uruguay form a huddle whilst wearing a Rugby World Cup France 2023

Mike Earl, World Rugby’s Director of Anti-Doping and Game Equipment, said. “The Keep Rugby Clean weekend at RWC 2023 is the perfect opportunity for everyone involved in elite rugby to show how much integrity matters to our game. The teams and players who get involved are not stage-managed, they promote the campaign willingly, which sends a great message out to the wider world about just how seriously we take fairness and clean sport as a guiding principle of our game.”

Keep Rugby Clean is World Rugby’s anti-doping education and awareness programme and “aims to deter and prevent doping by educating participants on their responsibilities, raising awareness of doping risks, and fostering an ethical clean-sport ethos.”

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• Keep Rugby Clean is used as a unifying message across all World Rugby’s clean sport education and promotion programmes in advance of, and during the tournament.
• International players are subject to doping control all year round, as far as a year out from the RWC 2023 tournament, the focus intensifies on the squads and teams attending.

World Rugby and AFLD, the French National Anti-Doping Organisation, run the RWC 2023 anti-doping testing programme which is intended to ensure a clean and fair tournament.

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